A vintage creation to Latin literature, with translations of the simplest passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and so forth. This vintage anthology strains the advance of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire similar to Lucan and Petronius, to the later writings of St Augustine.

Poised to turn into a vintage of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: the 1st Century bargains seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of just about the entire significant figures in jazz background. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet enjoying to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning, and from the swinging attractiveness of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman, jazz critic Gary Giddins consistently astonishes the reader together with his unprecedented perception.

Theodor W. Adorno was once a tremendous twentieth-century thinker and social critic whose writings on oppositional tradition in paintings, song, and literature more and more stand on the heart of up to date highbrow debate. during this first-class assortment, Robert Hullot-Kentor, largely considered as the main wonderful American translator and commentator on Adorno, gathers jointly 16 essays he has written in regards to the thinker over the last 20 years.

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, the autumn of Language within the Age of English lays naked the fight to maintain the brilliance of one's personal language during this interval of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but additionally raised and proficient within the usa, Minae Mizumura recognizes the price of a common language within the pursuit of data, but additionally embraces the various methods of knowing provided by way of a number of tongues.